Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Apologies for the long hiatus here. It is intended to be "just" a hiatus, but until I can unsnarl the intertangled problems of an aging computer, Adobe updates devilishly designed to lock up the system, and Blooger updates requiring me to learn new interfaces regularly, it's simply more fight than I want to cope with. I set this up for my own entertainment, and to share my amusements with others. When it has me grinding my teeth in frustration, it's not worth it.

However, I did want to archive today's Twitter tear in a place where I could find it, and others could enjoy it too. So without further ado, "Pacific Northwest Survival Tips:"

We divide our fresh water into three categories: ground water, surface water & air water: water that is currently falling.

The outdoors is there to enjoy. Careful though. It will chew you up and spit you out dead if you don't use common sense.

Be careful. We're coffee snobs. But you already knew that, right?

We still support and have small independent bookstores. Yeah, we're retro like that.

Newcomers have about a one month grace period to learn correct pronunciation of names. Except Orygun. No grace on that one.

We don't believe the world will end in 2012. We believe world went into an endless coma in 1980 when Reagan was elected.

If anyplace in the US moves to metric, it will be PNW snow reports. Because snow amounts near 1000 inches are just silly.

Yes, walking around in shorts, tee shirt and flipflops is possible in winter, and will get you looks. Contemptuous ones.

If we had a state gastropod, it would be the banana slug.

People here do weird things just to be different. Like anywhere else. Unlike other places, we don't make a fuss about it.

Contrary to widespread belief, "The Earthquake Forecast" is not part of the evening news. But we're working on it.

Bend has grown enormously, from small town nearly impossible to get through to large city nearly impossible to get through

Salem is known for the golden pioneer on the State Capitol building. And not much else.